The Oregon State University Marching Band, cheerleaders and dance team stopped by around noon for a quick performance on their way to Seattle to root on the football team.

Metro-area Beavers were invited to come down and watch the performers show off their orange and black pride.

OSU takes on Washington State on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at CenturyLink Field in Seattle. This will be the first neutral site game in the series since 1942, when the Beavers and Cougars played in Portland.

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A Portland man who watched a solar eclipse in 1963 says the experience left him partially blind in one eye, and now he wants everyone to know the warnings about eye damage during the upcoming eclipse are no joke.

A Portland man who watched a solar eclipse in 1963 says the experience left him partially blind in one eye, and now he wants everyone to know the warnings about eye damage during the upcoming eclipse are no joke.